What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
By seeking and blundering we learn.
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one’s own convictions from another’s lips.
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.